All Souls Langham Place
Happy 90th Birthday Uncle John
This is a post I wrote 4 years ago on the occasion of John Stott’s 86th Birthday. Quite a lot has changed since – not
27th April 2011
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Church History
16th Century
15 questions to ask of popular history
Having come up with a couple of other similar lists for Lars Dahle’s online culture project (20 Questions for Novels & 12 Questions for Albums),
25th April 2011
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How churches argued when “men were men” & other mediaeval nuggets
Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England is a lot of a fun. It’s a very refreshing take the social history of a time
11th April 2011
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Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 31 (April 2011)
Sacred Treasure Martin Bashir is interviewed about his interview of Rob Bell. I was particularly struck by his perception of what C S Lewis called
1st April 2011
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Capturing a legacy: A Portrait of John Stott by his friends
On 27th April, John Stott will celebrate his 90th birthday. In the coming years, there will be a great multitude claiming to be inheritors of
29th March 2011
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The oppressive shadows of the Berlin Wall: Anna Funder’s Stasiland
The Berlin Wall has been gone for over 20 years. But its shadows haven’t. People here talk of the Mauer im Kopf or the Wall
3rd March 2011
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Swedish sculptural surprises amidst Lund’s mediaeval grandeur
I’ve been in Lund, Sweden since Wednesday, as a guest of Teofil to speak for Langham at 2 conferences this week. It is a real
19th February 2011
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Heinrich Heine foresees the fragility of the cross in the face of Hitler’s Thor
Having finished Metaxas major biography of Bonhoeffer the other day, lots of things have jostled around my mind. I confess I skimmed bits of it
15th February 2011
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Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 29 (February 2011)
Sacred Treasure Interesting article by Mark Dever on staying in pastoral ministry for the long haul – citing the example of the 3 bachelor Cambridge
1st February 2011
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JB Phillips on the KJV’s ‘prison of traditional beauty’
Following up last Friday’s post on Eugene Peterson and the King James Bible, my colleague Roger Salisbury reminded me of the ethos that lay behind
18th January 2011
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16th Century
Rehabilitating the Medieval Scientific Mind and why it matters
Sir Isaac Newton is a titan in world science, so it’s no surprise that he features on the very first, and the penultimate page of
21st December 2010
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The generous web: Clay Shirky again, on generations, revolutions and Gutenberg
The Blair autobio was far too chunky for me take on the plane to Albania, last week, so instead I took Clay Shirky’s followup to
8th October 2010
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